Bonsai Hardwood Cuttings

From cutting to bonsai.

Bonsai hardwood cuttings.

Fortunately several species of trees can be propagated by winter cuttings or hardwood cuttings. This is very common in plant nurseries because you can mass produce plants for very little cost. 1 a clean well drained rooting medium 2 a rooting hormone provided either naturally or by applying one 3 a constant supply of moisture to make up for the lack of roots 4 sufficient light to allow the manufacture of food softwood and semi hardwood 5 bottom heat in some cases although almost all do better with it. Some hardwood cuttings can be prepared and planted after their growth season late summer.

For bonsai however it is stem cuttings that are normally used. Before we start propagating trees from cuttings let s look at the stages of development of young trees first. One of the easiest ways to reproduce a bonsai for free is to grow it from cuttings. There are a wide range of cuttings in general horticultural use that can be used to propagate garden plants from leaf cuttings to root cuttings.

Take these during autumn and winter. Growing bonsai from seed or from cuttings will be a test of your. Read the bonsai tree species guide for timing. So if you are trimming your bonsai and you would like to propagate some of your trees here is how you go about it.

Many bonsai enthusiasts however successfully take cuttings at what is supposed to be the wrong time of year recycling prunings from their existing bonsai rather than throwing them on the compost heap.